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  • Getting FB access token facebookFacebook Graph API — getting access tokens completely "borrowed" from this site Assume an application with an id 116122545078207, and using the URL of the blog (http://benbiddington.wordpress.com) to collect request tokens. Following the in...
  • Big Brother bigBroBig Brother just got scarier: Japanese CCTV camera can scan 36 million faces per second - and recognise anyone who has walked into its gaze Biometric camera stores details of everyone who walks past it Stores 'library' of face info Can scan throug...
  • Google to Claim Clam puppetGoogle to Claim Clam Last week, tech giant Google secured a patent on research for a processor two times faster than the leading Intel processor.  So what’s the real ‘mussel’ behind Google’s new processor chip? Mollusk meat. So how will it wor...
  • Enabling PHP and Apache in Mac OSX php1Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard ol.tutorial li {margin-bottom: 25px; line-height: 1.5em} code {display: inline; padding:0px;} Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) comes with both A...
  • URL encode/decode url-encode-url-decodeHelpful tool in case you don't have all the%20characters%20memorized: This is useful for dynamically creating Twitter messages, or just generating URL-safe code for non alphanumeric characters. Also, the textarea is pretty. This is also a plus. func...